1999 Free Software Award

For the 1999 Free Software Award, we have received a lot of nominees.
They are, in alphabetical order:

Alan Cox

Alessandro Rubini

Alexandre Julliard

Alfredo

Andi Gutmans

Andrew Tridgell

Apache Software Foundation

Armed Linux

AT&T Laboratories Cambridge

Bernhard Rosenkraenzer

Bert Tyler

Bill Gates

Bill Joy

Bram Moolenaar

Brian Behlendorf

Brian Paul

Caolan McNamara

Carsten Haitzler

Charles Hannum

Chuck Hagenbuch

Craig Burley

Dan Ingalls

Danny ter Haar

Darryl Strauss

Dave Rand

Debian Project

DJ Delorie

Donald Becker

Donald Knuth

Doug McEachern

Dr Douglas Schmidt

Earl Hood

Eric Allman

Fractint Team

Fred Fish

FreeBSD Team

Geoff Harrison

Guido van Rossum

James Clark

Jamie Zawinski

Jeffrey A. Law

Jeremy Katz

Jim Blandy

Jim Winstead

Joey Hess

John Gilmore

John Ousterhout

Jordan K. Hubbard

Jorrit Tyberghein

Keith Sklower

Kenji Kojima

Kirk McKusick

Kyle Jones

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Lennart Augustsson

Marc Lehmann

Mark Linton

Matthias Ettrich

Miguel de Icaza

Mike Heins

Mike Karels

Miquels van Smoorenburg

MRTG Team

Nicholas Petreley

Olivier Fourdan

Patrick Lenz

Patrick Volkerding

Paul Eggert

Paul Mackerras

Paul Vixie

Peter Mattias

Phil Zimmerman.

PHP Project

Ralf S. Engelschall

Rasmus Lerdorf

SGI

Shane Caraveo

Shawn Hargreaves

Spencer Kimball

Stig Bakken

Theo De Raadt

Thomas Bushnell

Tim Berners-Lee

Tim O'Reilly

Tim Wegner

Tobias Oetiker

Tom Adelstein

Werner Koch

Wietse Venema

W. Richard Stevens

Zeev Suraski

We want to give this award to a person who has made a great
contribution to the progress and development of free software (free as
in freedom; see our definition of
free software), through activities that accord with the spirit of
free software.

Any kind of activity could be eligible—writing software, writing
documentation, publishing CDs, even journalism—but whatever the
activity, we want to recognize long-term central contributions to the
development of the world of free software. “Accord with the
spirit” means, for example, that software, manuals or
collections of them (on tape or CD) must be entirely free. (Once
again, that's free as in freedom;
see our philosophy on selling free
software.) Work done commercially is eligible, but we want to
give awards to individuals, not companies.

People such as Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds, and Larry Wall, who
have already received this or other awards for their contributions,
are not eligible for the Free Software Award.